University Press Of Mississippi: 979 books
Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen
Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including...
Knowing Jazz
Community, Pedagogy, and Canon in the Information Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Ken Prouty argues that knowledge of jazz, or more to the point, claims to knowledge of jazz, are the prime movers in forming jazz's identity, its canon, and its community. Every jazz artist, critic, or fan understands jazz differently, based on each individual's unique experiences and insights. Through...
That's Got 'Em!
The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
William C. Sweatman (1882-1961) is one of the most truly important, yet unheralded, African American musicians involved in the transition of ragtime into jazz in the early twentieth century. In That's Got 'Em!, Mark Berresford tracks this energetic pioneer over a seven-decade career. His talent transformed...
Godfather of the Music Business
Morris Levy
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This biography tells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical style, bebop. Levy operated one of the first integrated clubs...
A Trumpet around the Corner
The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and...
Listen to This
Miles Davis and Bitches Brew
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Listen to This stands out as the first book exclusively dedicated to Davis's watershed 1969 album, Bitches Brew. Victor Svorinich traces its incarnations and inspirations for ten-plus years before its release. The album arrived as the jazz scene waned beneath the rise of rock and roll and as Davis...
The Melody Man
Joe Davis and the New York Music Scene, 1916-1978
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Joe Davis, the focus of The Melody Man enjoyed a 50-year career in the music industry, which covered nearly every aspect of the business. He hustled sheet music in the 1920s, copyrighted compositions by artists as diverse as Fats Waller, Carson Robison, Otis Blackwell, and Rudy Vallee, oversaw hundreds...
Jazz Diplomacy
Promoting America in the Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009
Jazz as an instrument of global diplomacy transformed superpower relations in the Cold War era and reshaped democracy's image worldwide. Lisa E. Davenport tells the story of America's program of jazz diplomacy practiced in the Soviet Union and other regions of the world from 1954 to 1968. Jazz music...
The Cry Was Unity
Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and...
The Black Cultural Front
Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
The Black Cultural Front describes how the social and political movements that grew out of the Depression facilitated the left turn of several African American artists and writers. The Communist-led John Reed Clubs brought together black and white writers in writing collectives. The Congress of Industrial...
Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge
The Library of Congress Letters, 1935-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) began working for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1936, first as a special and temporary assistant, then as the permanent Assistant in Charge, starting in June 1937, until he left in late 1942. He recorded such important musicians as Woody Guthrie,...
by Chris Goertzen
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
George P. Knauff's Virginia Reels (1839) was the first collection of southern fiddle tunes and the only substantial one published in the nineteenth century. Knauff's activity could not anticipate our modern contest-driven fiddle subcultures. But the fate of the Virginia Reels pointed in that direction,...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II
Jazz Derivatives and Developments in Twentieth-Century Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume II, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik extends and expands the epic exploration he began in Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I. This second volume amplifies how musicians influenced by swing, bebop, and post-bop in Africa from the...
Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I
The African Undercurrent in Twentieth-Century Jazz Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A CHOICE 2018 Outstanding Academic Title
In Jazz Transatlantic, Volume I, renowned scholar Gerhard Kubik takes the reader across the Atlantic from Africa to the Americas and then back in pursuit of the music we call jazz. This first volume explores the term itself and how jazz has been defined...